CulturalEncounter范例.pptVIP

Warm-up 1. What kind of age is 21st century? An information age. 2. Why do we call it an information age? We live in an age when more information is available with greater ease than ever before. Communication becomes much more important than ever. Internet Mobile phone Television E-mail (vs. S-mail) QQ WeChat (micro-letter) Fetion chat MSN Blog Text messages Voice messages Video messages Multimedia messages Communication is impossible without language. What language has been chosen in this global communication revolution? To learn a language is also to learn its culture. If you want to be bilingual, you should also be bicultural. Have a quiz 1. John Bull Uncle Sam 2. Frank is a man eating no fish, so we can believe in and depend on him. 3. Jeffrey has an excellent performance in almost every subject, math being his Achilles’ heel. Some English and Chinese Idioms Walls have ears. As fat as a pig The frog in the well Blood is thicker than water. To laugh one’s head off To spend money like water Every potter praises his own pot . 隔墙有耳 肥得像猪 井底之蛙 血浓于水 笑掉大牙 挥金如土 王婆卖瓜，自卖自夸 Can you translate: 1. 算盘 2. 二胡 3. 麻将 4. 丁字路口 5. 在床上睡成一个“大”字 6. Do you know she is a blue boy. 7. A Pink Lady for me, a Martini for my husband and a glass of hot milk for my daughter, please. One English native speaker came to China for a visit. When he stepped off the plane and he told the Chinese man meeting him at the airport, “I’d like to go somewhere.” The Chinese smiled and said, “You can go anywhere”. A Chinese girl studied abroad in Britain. While studying, she took a part-time job in a company. One day, her boss was ill and sent to the hospital. She went to see her with a flower in red and white. To her surprise, she was driven out of the hospital by her boss and later she was also fired. What is the misunderstanding here? A foreign teacher, who taught English in China, one day made a request to the Chinese Bureau of Foreign Affairs. Hearing